[3] The Poles tried to establish order in that area, and commissioned French military cartographer and engineer Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan to construct the fort.

[3] Legend has it that Jean Marion was covered with gunpowder, put on a pole and set on fire, and that the subsequent explosion threw him into the Dnieper.

[3] The Poles hired the German engineer Friedrich Getkant and rebuilt Kodak, three times larger, in 1639.

It surrendered to the Cossacks on 1 October 1648,[3] after a 7-month siege, upon hearing the news of Polish defeat at the Battle of Pyliavtsi on 24 September 1648.

[3] The Soviet government attempted to destroy the remnants of fortress in order to eradicate traces of Polish influence[5] on Ukraine by establishing a quarry on the site in the early 1930s.